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By Larry Hancock, Larry J Hancock. 2015
An examination of over sixty years of military and terror threats against America, as well as of the intelligence tools…
and practices that provided warnings of those attacks. Traces the evolution and application of these intelligence practices and discusses why these warnings have often failed to interdict or intercept actual attacks. 2015By Alan B. Trabue. 2015
Memoirs from a former CIA officer, describing his work polygraphing foreign spies and his many other adventures, beginning with his…
induction to the CIA in 1971. He details many of his high-adrenaline experiences as well as humorous stories. He also discusses the CIA's use of polygraph and interrogation in validating information. 2015By Ellis Henican, Naveed Jamali. 2015
In 2008 the author, an average American, aided an initially reluctant FBI duo in taking down a top Russian spy…
based at the United Nations, using only what he'd learned about spying from books, films, games, and TV. In the process, he spent four years as a civilian double agent. Some strong language. 2015In the ever-changing world of espionage, the world's spymasters have begun to shun human intelligence gathering, replacing it with technical…
methods such as satellite photography and global communications interception. Journalist Stephen Grey examines how this has failed at times, however, and provides a history of favored techniques and technologies. 2015By Cyrus Copeland. 2015
An American civilian, Max Copeland, was seized by the Revolutionary Guards in Iran in 1979 and charged with espionage. The…
author, Max's son, relates how his mother, Shahin, attempted to free Max, and he searches to uncover just who his father really was. Strong language. 2015By Jeremy Dronfield, Deborah McDonald. 2015
Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg began a passionate affair with British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart in the…
early twentieth century, even while spying on him for the Bolsheviks. The authors recount Moura's attempts to save Lockhart and her continued espionage after later fleeing to England. Some descriptions of sex. 2015By Christopher Dickey. 2015
Journalist Christopher Dickey recounts the work of Robert Bunch, who served as British consul in Charleston in 1853. His work…
also encompassed sending intelligence to the British government and working against his neighbors' plans for a new Confederacy, even on the brink of the American Civil War. Some strong language. 2015Editor-in-chief of Truthdig Robert Scheer discusses the widespread surveillance of the general public conducted by corporations and government agencies and…
condemns the erosion of privacy rights. He argues that the information revolution, despite its positive elements, contains the seeds of freedom's destruction in the form of a surveillance state. 2015By Peter Finn, Petra Couvée. 2014
Journalist Finn and translator Couvée examine the life and major work of Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), author of Doctor Zhivago (DB…
75275). Details influences on the novel, writing culture in the Soviet state, how the novel was published, and its use by Western intelligence agencies as Cold War propaganda. Some strong language. 2014By James Risen. 2014
Author of State of War (DB 61826) examines the financial cost of war and governmental waste. Discusses duplication of efforts…
by federal agencies, loss of aid dollars sent to war-torn countries, and the persecution of whistleblowers within the United States. 2014By Karen Abbott. 2014
Profiles of four women and their service during the Civil War. Discusses Emma Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man…
and fought for the Union Army; Belle Boyd, who was a Confederate spy; Rose O'Neal Greenhow, another Confederate spy; and Elizabeth Van Lew, who spied for the Union. 2014By Vernon Loeb, Jack Devine. 2014
Devine (born 1940) describes joining the Central Intelligence Agency in the late-1960s after working as a high school social studies…
teacher and part-time teamster. Explains his roles as an overseas covert operative and as leader of the mission known as "Charlie Wilson's War." Examines the culture of intelligence gathering. 2014By Tennent H. Bagley, T. H Bagley. 2013
Former CIA officer Bagley examines the life of KGB chief Sergey Kondrashev--Bagley's counterpart and later friend. Discusses KGB operations during…
the Cold War and reveals previously unknown breaches of security. Reminiscences include Kondrashev's interpreting for Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President John Kennedy. 2013By Larry Hancock, Stuart Wexler, Larry J Hancock. 2014
Details the history and evolution of America's covert war activities. Examines how they have been authorized and practiced, their patterns…
and consequences, and why presidents have turned to secret military action. 2014By John Rizzo, John Anthony Rizzo. 2014
Serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, John Rizzo witnessed and participated in virtually every major operation of the…
CIA's modern history. Former chief legal officer of the agency, he charts its evolution from shadowy entity to an organization subject to new laws, rules, and public scrutiny. 2014By Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger. 2008
Wallace, former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service, and Melton, an expert on clandestine devices, survey spy gadgets…
from World War II to the War on Terror. Describes cameras, microphones, disguises, and encryption systems; their use in the field; and transition into the digital age. 2008Author of American Lightning (DB 68656) examines the development of a German spy ring in the United States just before…
the country's entry into World War I. Details efforts of the New York Police Department's Bomb and Neutrality Squad to uncover the ring and counteract its machinations. Some violence. 2014By Scott C. Johnson. 2013
Former Newsweek foreign correspondent contemplates his childhood abroad and describes the sense of betrayal he felt when he learned that…
his dad was a spy. Discusses his own career as a journalist in hot spots such as Afghanistan and Iraq--and occasionally crossing paths with his father. Strong language. 2012By Stephen Kinzer. 2013
Biography of siblings John Foster Dulles, secretary of state from 1953 to 1959, and Allen Dulles, CIA director from 1953…
to 1961, who controlled American foreign policy during the Cold War. Describes their role in shaping policies that still had an impact more than a half-century later. 2013By Mark Mazzetti. 2013
Award-winning New York Times journalist tracks the militarization of the CIA and its use of special forces after the September…
11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Discusses targeted killings via drone strikes and the emergence of a military-intelligence alliance to carry out this new style of war. 2013